Canterbury abounded in hospicesof various kinds, some specially reserved for the poorer clergy.
Bureaux d'assistance exist in every commune, and are managed by the combined committees of the hospices and the bureaux de bienfaisance or by one of these in municipalities, where only one of those institutions exists.
The Commissions des Hospices Civiles, however, are purely communal bodies, although they receive pecuniary assistance from both the departments and the state.
These pilgrimages to Compostella were exceedingly popular in that age, and hospices for the pilgrims to that shrine were to be found in all the large cities and towns.
Digby says the hospitality and charity of these hospices had their origin in the bishops' houses.
It will be enough to pick out and send to the hospices the most ill-balanced, those whose presence among normal children would be a danger owing to the perversion of their instincts or the brutality of their impulses.
Every impartial mind ought to be with us when we express the view that henceforth the activities of the schools and hospices should be made plain by precise information.
For the little that is known about this missionary of charity, compare Remacle, Hospices d'Enfans trouves, pp.
Thus in 845 we read that the Council of Meaux ordered the hospices in France to be restored to the dispossessed Irishmen.
Sometimes the hospices were diverted to purposes other than those originally intended, and then Church Councils would intervene in favor of the lawful inheritors.
So numerous were they and so frequent their travels through the different countries of Europe that hospices were founded to befriend them.
Similar hospices are found elsewhere in the Eastern Alps: at San Martino, Paneveggio, and Auf der Plecken.
But from those three hospices the last of the ladies must have retreated at a comparatively recent date.
When they ceased to be ecclesiastics, and fixed themselves in the hospices which soon after the reception of the gowned tenants, were styled Inns of Courts; our lawyers took unto themselves wives, who were both fair and discreet.
This corporation was in existence after 1789, but the hospitals and hospices had obtained the right of furnishing hangings for funeral ceremonies, and a decree of the year XII transferred it to churches and consistories.
Desportes, this fact is attested; and one of the first cares of the conseil general of the hospices was to order a general renovation and reform, a thorough cleansing out.
The most celebrated of these hospices of Paris are the Bicetre and the Salpetriere; the former at Gentilly, about a kilometre from the southern fortifications, and the latter on the Boulevard d'Hopital.
Among the earliest hospices might be mentioned the leper hospital founded in Classis near Ravenna in S.
The use of hospices is much connected with Carlovingian times; they came in when the Church ruled, and pilgrimages became the fashion.
Many of them were converted from Arianism to Catholicism, and they vied with the Italians in piety and liberality towards the Church of God, building both Hospices and Monasteries.
He has a fixed weekly revenue arising from the hospices of the Jews, the markets and the merchants, apart from that which is brought to him from far-off lands.
Money is given to those that have stayed in the hospices on their return to their homes.
He built, on the other side of the river, on the banks of an arm of the Euphrates which there borders the city, a hospital consisting of blocks of houses and hospices for the sick poor who come to be healed[126].
On many of the houses the pilgrim shell is carved; the streets are paved with granite and the vast hospices are of the same severe stone, moss-grown and damp; grass also grows between the big granite slabs of the silent, imposing squares.
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